I got through about 15 minutes of it because it was SO obvious to me, no matter how good of actors & comedians they were, that they had both lost their zest for each other & doing the same schtick they did for years. You can in fact even sense & see the anger between them. Can just tell they had been through a LOT in their marriage (as we know was true now) since "I Love Lucys" golden period. Awkward vibe. Still though, interesting & in color. Also, I fast forwarded through a lot & didn't watch it all after that-but saw a few fascinating scenes of the Desilu studios inside & outside. I love stuff like that. I may re-watch more just to check that out- I gave my review 7 stars simply because how nostalgically & historically interesting this is. Vivian Vance & William Frawley showed up. As I said I was just fast forwarding after the first minutes but I stopped on a part with Vivian saying her name was Vivian, not Ethel. That was funny because I had read she hated everyone calling her Ethel all the time & in Lucy's show in the 1960s about them being single she insisted her name on it be Vivian.
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Lucy and Desi play Lucy and Ricky playing Lucy and Desi
randishme14 January 2022
I found this to be historically interesting. Lucy and Desi alternately played their characters and themselves. They were so professional that you cannot tell that they were just months away from their divorce and Lucy's remarriage to Gary Morton. They mentioned that I Love Lucy was getting 50 million viewers per episode with less than half of the current population. No programming today gets that many viewers. Lucy and Desi appealed to everyone. The show they put on for the public was obviously not who they were. I think Lucille Ball was not subservient to Desi. She helped make him successful and was the driver of the ship.
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